Taco Time’s ultimate soda fountain
Parents: next time you bring your kids into Taco Time, get ready to blow their soda-loving minds.
By Jennifer Lee March 11, 2011
Parents: next time you bring your kids into Taco Time, get ready to blow their soda-loving minds. Coca-Cola has spent the last half-decade transforming the soda fountain into every child’s dream with their new Freestyle soda fountain–and select locally owned Taco Time locatoins are the only places in the Northwest where you can give it a whirl. For the soda fanatic, it’s the ultimate candy store of soft drinks, with 106—yes, 106!—soda flavors funneled into a single machine. Flavors include standards like Coke (including cherry, vanilla, orange—all available in diet, Coke Zero or caffeine-free varieties), Fanta (eight fruity choices—also available in Fanta Zero) and Minute Maid beverages that you would regularly see at any fast food chain, but the beauty is the dizzying flavor choices for each product, bringing the self-serve soda fountain experience to a whole new level of sipping pleasure. (The Freestyle also offers uncarbonated refreshments like Dasani and Powerade, but we think the real fun lies with the bubbles).
Ok, so how does this 106 flavor thing work? (We had visions of those mix-in-the-syrup soft serve stands in Eastern Washington when we first heard of this.) Behold and marvel:
Coca-Cola
Cherry Coke
Coke with Lime
Vanilla Coke
Raspberry Coke
Orange Coke
Diet Coke
Diet Cherry Coke
Diet Coke with Lime
Diet Vanilla Coke
Raspberry Diet Coke
Orange Diet Coke
Coca-Cola Zero
Vanilla Coke Zero
Cherry Coke Zero
Caffeine-Free Diet Coke
Caffeine-free Diet Cherry Coke
Caffeine-free Diet Coke with Lime
Caffeine-free Diet Coke with Orange
Caffeine-free Diet Raspberry Coke
Caffeine-free Diet Vanilla Coke
Sprite, Sprite with Cherry
Sprite with Grape
Sprite with Peach
Sprite with Raspberry
Sprite with Strawberry
Sprite Zero
Sprite Zero with Cherry
Sprite Zero with Grape
Sprite Zero with Peach
Sprite Zero with Raspberry
Sprite Zero with Strawberry
Vault, Vault Red Blitz
Grape Vault
Orange Vault
Peach Vault
Barq’s
Diet Barq’s
Pibb
Pibb Xtra
Pibb Zero
Dasani, Dasani with Cherry
Dasani with Grape
Dasani with Lemon
Dasani with Lime
Dasani with Orange
Dasani with Peach
Dasani with Raspberry
Dasani with Strawberry
Dasani Sensations – Cherry
Dasani Sensations – Grape
Dasani Sensations – Lemon
Dasani Sensations – Lime
Dasani Sensations – Orange
Dasani Sensations – Peach
Dasani Sensations – Raspberry
Dasani Sensations
Strawberry Fanta
Fanta Cherry
Fanta Fruit Punch
Fanta Grape
Fanta Lime
Fanta Orange
Fanta Peach
Fanta Raspberry
Fanta Strawberry
Fanta Zero
Fanta Zero Cherry
Fanta Zero Fruit Punch
Fanta Zero Grape
Fanta Zero Lime
Fanta Zero Orange
Fanta Zero Peach
Fanta Zero Raspberry
Fanta Zero Strawberry
Hi-C Cherry
Hi-C Fruit Punch
Hi-C Grape
Hi-C Orange
Hi-C Raspberry
Hi-C Strawberry
Minute Maid Cherry Lemonade
Minute Maid Lemonade
Minute Maid Light Cherry Lemonade
Minute Maid Light Lemonade
Minute Maid Light Orange Lemonade
Minute Maid Light Raspberry Lemonade
Minute Maid Light Strawberry Lemonade
Minute Maid Orange Lemonade
Minute Maid Raspberry Lemonade
Minute Maid Strawberry Lemonade
Powerade ION4 Fruit Punch
Powerade ION4 Grape
Powerade ION4 Lemon
Powerade ION4 Lime
Powerade ION4 Orange
Powerade ION4 Raspberry
Powerade ION4 Cherry
Powerade ION4 Strawberry
Powerade Zero
Powerade Zero Cherry
Powerade Zero Fruit Punch
Powerade Zero Grape
Powerade Zero Lemon
Powerade Zero Lime
Powerade Zero Orange
Powerade Zero Raspberry
and—INHALE!— Powerade Zero Strawberry
And just like with 7-11 slurpees, mix and matching flavors is encouraged (if you mix all five Sprite products together—it’s like drinking a bag of gummy bears!).
The Freestyle machines can be found at four Taco Time locations (Queen Anne, West Seattle, Bellevue and Renton) and will expand to 15 stores by the end of the month (there’s even an iPhone app to help you find the nearest location, or you can go to their Facebook page).